Mike Toomey

Toomey served in the Texas House from 1983 to 1988 and is a longtime friend and colleague of Rick Perry. Toomey is a partner in The Texas Lobby Group. Its web page boasts that the website Capitol Inside rated the firm tied for “Number one hired gun lobbyist” for 2005 and that Toomey was recently listed among Texas Monthly’s “Top 25 most powerful people in Texas politics.” Toomey’s clients have donated more than $5.5 million to Perry’s gubernatorial campaigns over the last decade, according to data from Texans for Public Justice. Among Toomey’s clients, according to the Texas Ethics Commission: AT&T, insurance companies Cigna and Liberty Mutual, Hewlett-Packard and Merck Sharp & Dohme.